Does anyone have any of these or know anything about them? They are big and cheap. I'm wondering about the sound, the quality of the performances, etc.
Sound is generally not very good. There's a lot of musical material to explore further, but overall I have been slightly disappointed so far, he often plays a bit sketchily there.
Or maybe I'm just experiencing a Richter historical-piano fatigue.
It's unlikely those prices can be found again though.
The recordings tend to be from the 50s and 60s, and live, so the sound can be a bit distant, hard or uneven, for example.
I guess the CD 8 with Schubert Impromptus etc. is pretty typical.
As regards the sketchily playing, it's present say in Liszt, Beethoven and Chopin, as far as I remember.
Dorliac's voice isn't of the wobbly Big Soprano-sort and quite pleasant or 'modern'-sounding, though Schubert sung in Russian is of course a bit peculiar.
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